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Dialogue for Kids"Dinosaurs"
They once roamed the Earth, but they eventually went extinct. Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guest scientist. David Varricchio, associate professor of paleontology at Montana State University, answer students' questions about dinosaurs. They also take a tour of one of his dinosaur digs and discuss his team's recent finds.G

3:30 pm

Piano Guy
Host Scott Houston and guests show viewers how to play Jerome Kern's "All The Things You Are" and discuss stride piano. Featured guests include Andy LaVerne, Bobby Floyd and five-time Grammy nominee, David Benoit. D

4:00 pm

Will Rogers and American Politics
Will Rogers, born part Cherokee in Indian Territory (later Oklahoma), speaks a common-sense language with a gentle humor - he criticizes but in a nice way. It makes him the voice of the nation in the 1920s and 1930s. This film profiles the cowboy, comedian, author, columnist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, movie and radio star. Archival footage and interviews tell the story narrated by Bill Kurtis. "Politics," Rogers maintained, "has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."G

Nature"My Life As A Turkey"
This prize-winning film re-enacts the unusual story of Joe Hutto, who for nearly two years became the mother of a group of Florida wild turkeys he imprinted as hatchlings at his home adjacent to Florida wildlands. Taken from Hutto's 1995 book, Illuminations in the Flatlands, which was written from his daily notations, the film is set in the same wildlands. Hutto is portrayed by wildlife photographer Jeff Palmer.G

7:00 pm

Dust Bowl"The Great Plow Up"
This film by Ken Burns chronicles the environmental catastrophe of the Great Plains during the 1930s. The frenzied wheat boom of the early 20th-century that plows the prairie lands becomes the victim of a decade-long drought that turns those lands into deserts and unleashes a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms. Twenty-six survivors of those hard times telling their stories and the eloquently written diaries of two women provide a narrative. Part 1 of 2G

9:00 pm

Dust Bowl"Reaping The Whirlwind"
For nearly a decade, the storms grow more ferocious and more frequent, sweeping up millions of tons of earth, killing crops and livestock, even spreading the dust across the country. Thousands flee, forced onto the road in an exodus unlike anything the United States had seen. But other thousands persevere against enormous odds. Families find ways to survive and hold onto their land. National and local government programs keep hungry families afloat, and a partnership between government agencies and farmers develop new farming and conservation methods. Part 2 of 2G

11:00 pm

Nature"My Life As A Turkey"
This prize-winning film re-enacts the unusual story of Joe Hutto, who for nearly two years became the mother of a group of Florida wild turkeys he imprinted as hatchlings at his home adjacent to Florida wildlands. Taken from Hutto's 1995 book, Illuminations in the Flatlands, which was written from his daily notations, the film is set in the same wildlands. Hutto is portrayed by wildlife photographer Jeff Palmer.G